You Don't Believe Poem by William Blake

You Don't Believe

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You don't believe - I won't attempt to make ye:
You are asleep - I won't attempt to wake ye.
Sleep on! sleep on! while in your pleasant dreams
Of Reason you may drink of Life's clear streams.
Reason and Newton, they are quite two things;
For so the swallow and the sparrow sings.

Reason says `Miracle': Newton says `Doubt.'
Aye! that's the way to make all Nature out.
`Doubt, doubt, and don't believe without experiment':
That is the very thing that Jesus meant,
When He said `Only believe! believe and try!
Try, try, and never mind the reason why! '

You Don't Believe
COMMENTS OF THE POEM

I really like the words in this poem! Never mind the reason why

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Gangadharan Nair Pulingat 19 September 2015

Different definitions reason and doubt a good poem it is felt.

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Solomon Senxer 14 September 2019

You don't believe - I won't attempt to make ye: You are asleep - I won't attempt to wake ye. Sleep on! sleep on! while in your pleasant dreams Of Reason you may drink of Life's clear streams. These lines are good to talk about many other things!

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Unknown 08 March 2019

Sup internet only reason im here is for a project so yeah this is kinda sad

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Fabrizio Frosini 09 February 2016

You don't believe - I won't attempt to make ye: You are asleep - I won't attempt to wake ye. Sleep on! sleep on! - ITALIAN: Tu non credi - non proverò a farti credere: Tu sei addormentato - non proverò a svegliarti. Dormici su! dormi!

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Ratnakar Mandlik 08 February 2016

A tug of war between the faithful who blindly believed in everything connected with spirituality/ religiosity and the scientific temperaments who did not believe any thing without backing of material evidence. Amazingly presented thought provoking poem, penned by a master spirit.

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Susan Williams 08 February 2016

I doubt Reason ever held a high place in his estimation of the worth of things. I doubt that he had much faith in anything beyond the self and satisfying its flitting and adventurous and often shocking needs.

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